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%I #13 Jul 26 2024 21:16:43
%S 1,4,21,45,76,117,164,221,284,357,436,525,620,725,836,957,1084,1221,
%T 1364,1517,1676,1845,2020,2205,2396,2597,2804,3021,3244,3477,3716,
%U 3965,4220,4485,4756,5037,5324,5621,5924,6237,6556,6885,7220,7565,7916,8277,8644
%N Number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 961", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
%C Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.
%D S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
%H Robert Price, <a href="/A273831/b273831.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..128</a>
%H Robert Price, <a href="/A273831/a273831.tmp.txt">Diagrams of the first 20 stages</a>
%H N. J. A. Sloane, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01168">On the Number of ON Cells in Cellular Automata</a>, arXiv:1503.01168 [math.CO], 2015
%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.html">Elementary Cellular Automaton</a>
%H S. Wolfram, <a href="http://wolframscience.com/">A New Kind of Science</a>
%H <a href="/index/Ce#cell">Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata</a>
%H <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_2D_5-Neighbor_Cellular_Automata">Index to 2D 5-Neighbor Cellular Automata</a>
%H <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_Elementary_Cellular_Automata">Index to Elementary Cellular Automata</a>
%F Conjectures from _Colin Barker_, Jun 01 2016: (Start)
%F a(n) = (-7-(-1)^n+8*n+8*n^2)/2 for n>2.
%F a(n) = 4*(n^2+n-1) for n>2 and even.
%F a(n) = 4*n^2+4*n-3 for n>2 and odd.
%F a(n) = 2*a(n-1)-2*a(n-3)+a(n-4) for n>6.
%F G.f.: (1+2*x+13*x^2+5*x^3-7*x^4+3*x^5-x^6) / ((1-x)^3*(1+x)).
%F (End)
%t CAStep[rule_,a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&,ListConvolve[{{0,2,0},{2,1,2},{0,2,0}},a,2],{2}];
%t code=961; stages=128;
%t rule=IntegerDigits[code,2,10];
%t g=2*stages+1; (* Maximum size of grid *)
%t a=PadLeft[{{1}},{g,g},0,Floor[{g,g}/2]]; (* Initial ON cell on grid *)
%t ca=a;
%t ca=Table[ca=CAStep[rule,ca],{n,1,stages+1}];
%t PrependTo[ca,a];
%t (* Trim full grid to reflect growth by one cell at each stage *)
%t k=(Length[ca[[1]]]+1)/2;
%t ca=Table[Table[Part[ca[[n]][[j]],Range[k+1-n,k-1+n]],{j,k+1-n,k-1+n}],{n,1,k}];
%t Map[Function[Apply[Plus,Flatten[#1]]],ca] (* Count ON cells at each stage *)
%K nonn,easy
%O 0,2
%A _Robert Price_, May 31 2016
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